Editors should strive to improve the quality of the JKPMHN. Editors should provide guidelines about research and publication ethics to researchers as well as information about the submission process and the review system to authors and reviewers. Editors should strive to maintain a fair and blind peer review system by choosing suitable reviewers in their area of research expertise to review manuscripts. To ensure that the peer review system is effective, editors should develop and maintain an up to date database of reviewers. The editor-in-chief should identify eligible editorial board members and provide them with information about the JKPMHN. The editor-in-chief should regularly discuss the publication of the JKPMHN with editorial board members. Editors should keep information about manuscripts, authors, and reviewers confidential. Editors should not use ideas expressed in the manuscript for their own research without the authors’ consent. Editors should evaluate manuscripts objectively and appropriately without any bias or personal interest. Editors are required to be alert to misconduct or ethical issues in manuscripts, and to follow the standards of research and publication ethics. When an editor finds a fundamental error in a published manuscript, he or she should immediately initiate the process of resolution, including an expression of concern, correction, and/or withdrawal of the manuscript, as necessary. The resolution process will be initiated following the flowchart provided by the COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).

Regulations for the Editorial Board
1. Purpose

The purpose of these regulations is to define matters regarding the operation of the editorial board of the JKPMHN.
2. Organization of the Editorial Board

The editorial board comprises an editor-in-chief and approximately eight members.
1) The editor-in-chief is the editorial director of the Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (KAPMHN), and the editor-in-chief recommends appropriate editorial board members. The president of the academy appoints them as editorial board members after receiving approval in a meeting of the board of directors of the KAPMHN.

2) The editor-in-chief recommends editorial board members among the members of KAPMHN. In selecting the members, the following criteria should be considered:

• (1) Editors should be those qualified for manuscript review through guidance or review of a thesis related to this society.
• (2) Editors should be holders of a doctoral degree and a position as university professor, or they should have equal qualifications.
• (3) Editors should have experience in editing and reviewing for a journal.
• (4) Editors should be familiar with the latest knowledge in each research field.
• (5) Editors are selected through consideration of an appropriate regional distribution.

3. Service Term:

The term of the editor-in-chief and the members of the editorial board is two years, and they may be reappointed.

4. Duties of the Editorial Board

• ▘The editor-in-chief represents the board and takes responsibility as the chairperson of the board.
• ▘The editorial board reviews and decides upon the following for the publication of manuscripts in the JKPMHN, and the editor-in-chief reports the results to the board of directors:
  • 1) Publishing the journal
    • Matters regarding editing
    • Decisions regarding review and publication of submitted manuscripts
    • Final decisions regarding articles to be published in each volume and issue
    • Determination of the article processing fee
    • Matters regarding the process for managing research & publication misconduct
    
  • 2) Preparation for journal evaluation
  • 3) Amendments of ‘Regulations’ related to manuscript submission, review, and publication of the journal
  • 4) Nominations and management of reviewers.
  • 5) Review and decisions relating to matters to be referred to the board of directors meeting.